WHAT ARE THE INGREDIENTS IN THE TANG ORANGE DRINK MIX?”
In order of appearance: SUGAR We’re talking sucrose here. Every day common granulated table sugar. Sucrose itself is the most abundant pure organic chemical in the world – and is the one that is most widely known by the common man. Sucrose comes from either sugar cane or sugar beets. Chemically, sucrose is a disaccharide (built of two simple sugars) composed of glucose and fructose. FRUCTOSE Fructose is a hexose. ‘Hextose’ refers to the number of carbon atoms in the ring, in this case 6. Fructose is found in fruits and vegetables. In many cases, the fructose we consume comes from corn syrup. Fructose itself is twice as sweet as sucrose but has only half the calories (its only half the sugar). Fructose also has the property that it is not absorbed into the blood as quickly as other sugars, especially when there is little glucose. This has significant implications for diabetics. CITRIC ACID (PROVIDES TARTNESS) HO2CCH2C(OH)(CO2H)CH2CO2H . Try saying that three times real fast. Shoot, just
